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Handout to paper by Satoru Shinagawa
http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/~satoru/other/actfl2000/
ACTFL Conference, Boston, MA
November 19 (Sunday) 8:30-9:45
Session Title: Teaching Japanese with On-Line Technologies
Along with Yasuhiro Omoto and Satoru Shinagawa
Keiko Schneider, Saboten Web Design
kschnei@sabotenweb.com
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks
The Role of Web in Curricular Reform by Andy Carvin (EdWeb) http://edweb.gsn.org/web.effects.html 1. The Web as Tutor 2. The Web as Publishing House 3. The Web as Forum 4. The Web as Navigator |
Good list for existing Foreign Languages Tutoring sites
Language Links http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html by Lauren Rosen
(Free Service to make your own)
Quiz Center: http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html
Quia! http://www.quia.com/
FunBrains http://www.funbrain.com/
More list can be found at: http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/teachers.html
Making interactive Pages
1. Using JavaScript (Example: Prof. Omoto's Hot Potatoes exercises)
Local, client-side, interaction happens within the browser in the local computer, works without logging into the internet, no tracking function
2. Using CGI (Example: Prof. Shinagawa's Adagio collaboration with Akita U.) Connected to a server, server-side, interaction is logged in the server
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) From AskJeeves (http://www.ask.com) Online computer dictionary
CGI allows the returned HTML (or other document type) to depend in any arbitrary way on the request. The CGI program can, for exaple, access information in a database and format the results as HTML. A CGI program can be any program which can accept command line arguments. Perl is a common choice for writing CGI scripts. Some HTTP servers require CGI programs to reside in a special directory, often"/cgi-bin" but better servers provide ways to distinguish CGI programs so they can be kept in the same directories as the HTML files to which they are related.
Publish (advertise) your class online
http://www.sabotenweb.com/conference/CTJLC2000/workshop_hand.html
Searches for foreign languages
Multi-lingual search by "Google" (http://www.google.com/)
Click on Language, Display, & Filtering Options
Change Interface Language to Japanese
Search is done and description is in your preferred language
Language Options of "AltaVista" http://doc.altavista.com/help/search/language.shtml
Copyright Keiko Schneider 2000